This column is different. Why? These times are different. How? Good question!
While we have invested much of our focus with STAYSUCCESSFUL into profit-driving, revenue-generating, strategy-enhancing, bottom-line improving activities; yet we must not forget about the act of philanthropy, and helping those people & families less fortunate, including the businesses designed to serve them.
This column will focus on the reality of today. Our financial markets are in turmoil. Our housing sector has not as yet seen the bottom. Our manufacturing industry is idling plants, laying off workers, and outsourcing to the world. Our military is engaged in two formal wars, and many other conflicts in an effort to preserve democracy. All the while together we stand in the wake of Hurricane IKE, and the literal devastation to smaller island nations like Haiti or Cuba, and now to our very own in Texas.
So what can you do? GIVE!
Give your time to a non-profit organization that needs you.
Give your money in proportion to a charity that inspires you.
Give your energy in service to others through volunteerism in your community.
Give your ideas to another business owner or person to help them improve their life.
Give your skills and expertise to a friend, family, or business less fortunate that you.
Give your whole-heart to a cause that will make a difference in our world.
Dr. Margaret Mead said it best: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed – it is the only thing that ever has.”
Begin the positive change in our world today by giving more of you!
Monday, September 15, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
How Can I Help You?
Identifying The 5 Most Powerful Words in Networking
Welcome to my long-overdue BLOG! In my first post, I’d like to share the 5 most powerful words in business networking. I know what you’re thinking: Of all the powerful, eloquent, strategic, and effective words available to us in the English language, how can there only be five most powerful? Good question!
The Facts of Life
For most of us in South Florida, and in most major metropolitan areas in the U.S.,daily life has become increasingly fast-paced. Time is at a premium as we strive to do more. Add to that bad news headlines, rising costs of living, increased traffic congestion, less customer loyalty, leaders lacking integrity, violence and crime on our streets, higher employee turnover, underfunded education, and rapidly changing economic conditions. As a result, each year professionals of all types experience the new facts of life reality: most people must work harder each year to keep pace.
The Rx for Failure
To remedy the reality of the facts of life, we hurry up to buy the latest cellphones that are more advanced, thinking we’ll be more efficient. We purchase fancy software programs, believing they will keep us more connected. We print exotic brochures, hoping they’ll catch our prospective clients attention. We build websites that are so exciting Google can’t even find them. We advertise like crazy hoping customers will come rolling in. And we join multiple membership organizations because we hear that involvement is beneficial to our business. If you're like most people, you're still not satisfied. Why?
Getting Back to Basics - and to the point!
So I've laid out the facts of life, shared the prescription (Rx) for failure, and if you're like most, satisfaction still eludes you. It is here that I'll encourage you to revisit the title of this post. Notice that the title is only 5 words? You were in such a hurry living your fast paced life, and using your newest techno-gadget and likely so anxious to get to the next most-important thing, that you missed the obvious!
So take a minute each day, slow things down, open your ears, close your mouth, and ask the question: How Can I Help You? By helping others as a way of doing business (and living life), others will naturally in turn want to help you.
It's so simple, it's complicated!
Identifying The 5 Most Powerful Words in Networking
Welcome to my long-overdue BLOG! In my first post, I’d like to share the 5 most powerful words in business networking. I know what you’re thinking: Of all the powerful, eloquent, strategic, and effective words available to us in the English language, how can there only be five most powerful? Good question!
The Facts of Life
For most of us in South Florida, and in most major metropolitan areas in the U.S.,daily life has become increasingly fast-paced. Time is at a premium as we strive to do more. Add to that bad news headlines, rising costs of living, increased traffic congestion, less customer loyalty, leaders lacking integrity, violence and crime on our streets, higher employee turnover, underfunded education, and rapidly changing economic conditions. As a result, each year professionals of all types experience the new facts of life reality: most people must work harder each year to keep pace.
The Rx for Failure
To remedy the reality of the facts of life, we hurry up to buy the latest cellphones that are more advanced, thinking we’ll be more efficient. We purchase fancy software programs, believing they will keep us more connected. We print exotic brochures, hoping they’ll catch our prospective clients attention. We build websites that are so exciting Google can’t even find them. We advertise like crazy hoping customers will come rolling in. And we join multiple membership organizations because we hear that involvement is beneficial to our business. If you're like most people, you're still not satisfied. Why?
Getting Back to Basics - and to the point!
So I've laid out the facts of life, shared the prescription (Rx) for failure, and if you're like most, satisfaction still eludes you. It is here that I'll encourage you to revisit the title of this post. Notice that the title is only 5 words? You were in such a hurry living your fast paced life, and using your newest techno-gadget and likely so anxious to get to the next most-important thing, that you missed the obvious!
So take a minute each day, slow things down, open your ears, close your mouth, and ask the question: How Can I Help You? By helping others as a way of doing business (and living life), others will naturally in turn want to help you.
It's so simple, it's complicated!
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